Erica: Tad, now we have to be sure that
Derek puts out an APB on Babe as soon as possible, before she gets any further
away.

Krystal: He can't.

David: Erica, you have us where you want
us. Leave Babe out of it.

Erica: Now, what kind of justice would that
be? Babe lied for months about being Miranda�s mother. Then she ran away to try
to avoid paying the price. So to ask me that Babe be let off without being
punished? No, I'm sorry. That is asking me way too much.

David: Well, then blame me. What I did was
much worse.

Tad: Was always more than humanity can
bear, which is why nobody ever listens to you anyway. So I'm begging you to
listen to me. Please, give Babe a break. Just leave her alone.

Ryan: Until we find out who poisoned you.
Now, can I get some help, please?

Greenlee: Only if it means we get home
sooner. Ever notice how Kendall shows up for work at 9:00 a.m. dressed for
cocktail hour? You think she actually has plans or is it just wishful thinking?

Ethan: Ok, what do you think, guys?

Anita: That's not bad.

Ethan: Yeah?

Anita: Looks good.

Bianca: All right, Ethan, what do you think
of our little girl?

Ethan: I think she is quite possibly the
most beautiful baby I've ever seen.

Bianca: Do you want to hold her?

Ethan: Me? No, I think that's a bad idea.

Anita: No.

Kendall: Oh, come on. Yes, yes, give me --
come on, yes, yes.

Ethan: Ok, Kendall, really, I -- I don't
know what I'm doing.

Kendall: Yes, you can, yes, you can, yes,
you can.

Anita: Besides, she'll let you know if
you're doing anything wrong.

Kendall: Look, look. Go see Aidan, go see
Aidan. Oh, yes!

Ethan: Hey. Hi.

Kendall: Oh, see? See that? It's not so
bad.

Bianca: No, you're a natural.

Kendall: Mm-hmm.

Ethan: Hey.

Anita: Hmm.

Ethan: No, it's not too bad at all. Hi,
Miranda.

Kendall: Aw, who's that?

Ethan: Hey. How are you doing? Whoop.

Kendall: Aw.

Ethan: My name's Ethan. Nice to meet you.

Kendall: Ooh.

Ethan: Did you have a nice Christmas? I see
you have lots of presents. Lots of presents. Nice weather we're having, isn't
it? You know it's nice weather. English weather. English football weather.
Manchester United, since you asked. Hey. Just a little struggle up.

Kendall: My God.

Bianca: Kendall? Do you see what I'm seeing?

Kendall: Yeah.

Ethan: Hi.

Aidan: Don't jump to any conclusions, Jack.
It's not what it seems.

Jack: Well, it seems like my teenage -- no,
my underage daughter just referred to you as her boyfriend. Now, why is that?

Danielle: Ouch.

Livia: Did you have anything to do with
this?

Reggie: J, wait, wait, before you do
anything, the whole boyfriend thing wasn't Aidan's idea, just to clear that up.

Lily: It was mine.

Jack: Yeah, well, sweetheart, it's not as
simple as all that.

Lily: It's very simple. Aidan and I are
going to hook up.

Jack: You, me, in there, now.

Livia: Your legal counsel's coming, too.

Jack: Would you please tell me what the
hell's going on in there?

Aidan: I don't know, Jack. I'm as knocked
out about this as you are.

Jack: Well, what did you do? What did you
say?

Aidan: It just came out of nowhere. I was
just making a date with Anita Santos when Lily comes and springs this on me.

Aidan: Anita and I came across her the
other day over at the boathouse. She was being tormented by three of her school
friends.

Jack: Oh, my God, those three girls are at
it again.

Aidan: Yeah, they're mean girls, as well,
Jack --

Jack: Yeah, they are.

Aidan: So I gave them an earful and I sent
them on their way. I gave her my jacket to keep her warm and a pair of
green-tinted sunglasses. And when I popped by your place the other day to pick
them up and to see how she was doing, I told her that she could keep the jacket.
The next thing I know, she thinks we're going steady.

Jack: Well, now, I think I understand it.
You rode to her rescue. You gave her presents. That's nothing that Lily ever
expects from anybody outside the family.

Aidan: I was just doing what needed to be
done.

Jack: And I appreciate that. But now you
are her hero.

Livia: I've fallen harder for less.

[Jack chuckles]

Livia: Hmm.

Aidan: I seem to have made a real mess of
it, haven't I? How do we fix it?

Erica: Look, Tad, I owe you a lot. I mean,
you were the only one with the courage to tell me about Miranda and I get it
that you're in a very tough spot with Jamie. Believe me, I do.

Erica: Look, I feel for you. I even feel
for Brooke. I can't imagine what it must be like to have a child who completely
abandons every single principle you ever taught them, to run off with someone
like Babe, a criminal?

Krystal: She's not a criminal.

Tad: All right, ok, could we just keep a
lid on it, please?

Erica: No, I haven't even started --

Tad: No, no, no.

[Shots]

Man: He has a gun! Get down!

Derek: It's ok, everybody. It wasn't
gunfire -- just fireworks.

Erica: I don't need your protection!

David: Well, that would be a first. How
many times have I covered your backside?

Erica: Only when there was something in it
for you.

David: Really? And what was in it for me
when I confessed to killing Michael Cambias? I was willing to go down for murder
to help protect your daughter, Erica. So help me protect mine.

Erica: There's a big difference. Kendall wasn't guilty. Babe is.

Krystal: What happened?

Tad: I guess some -- somebody set off some
fireworks.

Krystal: Why?

Tad: Probably a diversion. You all right?
What is it? What's wrong?

Krystal: Well, it looks like something
almost hit me.

Tad: Something did hit you. You're lucky.
Looks like you got grazed by a bottle rocket or something.

Krystal: Well, rocket man, if you hadn't
have thought so quick on your feet, I might have lost one of my best assets.
Thank you. And thanks for sticking up for Babe.

Derek: All right. All right, get the
suspects into interrogation for their statements.

David: No, we don't say anything without
our lawyers.

Krystal: David?

David: We know our rights.

Derek: All right, that's your call,
Hayward. But you can wait in lockup. I got to warn you, though -- it's a full
house down there. Let's go. You know the way.

Erica: Well, how sweet was that, the way
you jumped in and protected Krystal?

Tad: Oh, come on, Erica. You can't make
anything of that.

Erica: Is Krystal the reason that you want
to protect Babe? Is that what this is about, Tad?

Ryan: Greenlee?

Greenlee: I don't think Kendall would try to hurt me.

Ryan: I know you don't want to go there,
neither do I.

Greenlee: No, let's focus on the other
suspects, like who shot you. Zach Slater lives across the courtyard. Let's break
into his place instead.

Ryan: Zach's on my list, Ethan�s on my
list, but there's a very strong chance that Ethan and Kendall are in this
together.

Greenlee: Well, they are connected at the
hip except for the second shooting --

Ryan: That was Zach -- I'm positive. But
maybe Ethan is Zach's son and Zach staged the entire thing to get Ethan off the
hook for the first shot.

Greenlee: Or he just wants to finish the
job. Tell me what we did to deserve this.

Ryan: If we're walking around with
bull's-eyes on our backs because of the Cambias fortune, then what does that
mean for Miranda?

Greenlee: Kendall would never hurt Miranda. She loves that baby more than life.

Ethan: We're both celebrating a first
tonight -- my first New Year in this country and your first New Year, ever.

Bianca: I think she's in love.

[Miranda fusses]

Ethan: What's that, sweetheart? Shall we
make some resolutions? Ok, I resolve to grow a foot shorter. And how about you?
Ok, Miranda resolves that she --

[Miranda screams]

Ethan: I'm telling her! I'm telling her.

[Bianca laughs]

Ethan: Miranda resolves that she is never
going to give her mom a hard time or cry.

Bianca: Oh, well, I think I can live with
that.

[Kendall laughs]

Ethan: She's jumping.

Kendall: She is.

Ethan: Well, I suspect she's going to break
her resolution as soon as the hunger pangs kick in after midnight, but not
before I break mine -- hello. Hello. Oh. God, somebody's got a soggy bum.

Bianca: Auntie Kendall, you want to handle
that?

Kendall: Oh, right, of course. Of course I
will. I still can't get over it.

Ethan: I know, I know. Apparently any idiot
can handle a baby, including me.

Kendall: Come here.

Bianca: See you soon. You know, Ethan, I
think Kendall meant she can't get over how much Miranda resembles you.

Ethan: God help her if that's true.

Bianca: Ethan? You remember that I told you
that I wanted you to be a Cambias because I wanted a connection to the daughter
that I had lost or thought I lost. Well, now we know she's here, and I think she
could use a cousin. Do you want to find out for sure if you're a Cambias?

Ethan: Let's not go there, shall we?

Bianca: Ethan, you're a cotton swab away
from finding out the truth. No old shirts, no dead relatives, no evasive Zach
Slater. You were holding the evidence right in your arms. And I can speak for
Miranda, your new friend -- she will happily give you a little bit of her DNA.

Jack: Well, be that as it may, she can't be
allowed to think there's any kind of possibility there.

Anita: Maybe you guys are taking her too
literally. I mean, why don't you find out what having a boyfriend means to her,
and if it's something you can do, you might not have to hurt her at all.

Lily: Why did they go in there? I don't
like that. Aidan didn't answer when I asked him to be my boyfriend.

Danielle: It's a big commitment to make.

Lily: But he likes me. He told me I was
special.

Reggie: Lily, you are special. Aidan just
wants to -- to help you.

Lily: I don't want help. I want a
boyfriend.

Reggie: And I want to be the center for the
Houston Rockets -- not in this lifetime, sweetie.

Danielle: Reggie. Remember when we talked
about the different feelings you can have for guys? Well, it's the same for
them. Some girls are meant to just be their friend. Others rock their world.

Lily: Don't I rock his world?

Reggie: Lily, I'm sure Aidan thinks you're
amazing -- who wouldn't? -- But this thing between you two, it just can't
happen.

Lily: Don't say that! I want a boyfriend!

Reggie: Lily, stop. No, Lily, wait! Lily,
please, open up.

Danielle: Please, Lily, let us in.

[Pounding on door]

Reggie: Lily, please, open up!

Danielle: Lily, open the door, please?

Reggie: Lily, come on.

[Pounding]

Reggie: Come outside.

Ryan: I don't understand why you're
resisting Kendall as a suspect.

Greenlee: I don't know. I just -- I have
this feeling.

Ryan: Look, I love and I respect you,
Greenlee, but I can't cross Kendall off the list because of a vague feeling that
you have. All right? You were poisoned, and you've been in Kendall's sights since our wedding day. She had motive. She had opportunity
every day that we worked together.

Greenlee: She's not the only one out there
who hates me.

Ryan: Look, I really need to do this, ok,
with or without you.

Greenlee: Where do you want me to look?

Ryan: The inner sanctum.

Greenlee: Ok, you clearly don't have a clue
about where women hide things. You have to know what we value most and start
there.

Ethan: I don't want it. I don't care about
the money or the power. I certainly would be insane to want to be related to
Zach Slater or be any part of that family.

Bianca: Pardon me, but you know what?
Miranda is a Cambias, and she won't have the monogram, as you put it, or the
family name, but she's going to have everything else that Alex, Sr. left behind.
Ryan has decided to sign over the inheritance.

Miranda: Ha!

Bianca: Hmm.

Kendall: Yeah. I told you he would.

Ethan: Really?

Bianca and Kendall: Yes.

Bianca: And you need to think about Miranda
here a little bit. I mean, when she's old enough to take over the responsibility
for the estate, I'm going to help her as much as I can, but wouldn't it be
awesome if she had somebody on the Cambias side of the family that she could
trust, somebody that she could share it with?

Kendall: Yeah, and it's certainly not going
to be Zach. Now, look, I know it's a lot easier for you to just try and forget
about the truth, but trust me, take it from me. I promise you, not knowing is
going to absolutely drive you nuts.

Bianca: Yeah. I can vouch for that one. I
mean, all those months that I didn't know my baby was alive, I still knew that I
was missing something, and it ate away at me, and I knew that I was going to
have to find it before I could go on with my life.

Kendall: Ethan, I see you. I watch you. You
can't sleep. You're up all night. You pace, you worry.

Bianca: If you want a good night's sleep,
go for the truth.

Tad: All I'm trying to do is protect my
son.

Erica: Are you saying that Jamie knew about
the baby all along?

Tad: No. He couldn't have known about the
baby switch. I mean, if he'd known, I would have known. Jamie's not the one who
betrayed Bianca.

Erica: Then his only crime was hormonal --
he fell for Babe.

Tad: Right. So the last thing I want to see
as his father is to watch him get locked up for something like that.

Erica: But I will be doing Jamie a favor if
I make Derek run after Babe. He'll arrest her, he'll lock her up, she'll get
punished, and then Jamie can get over his infatuation and on with his life.

Tad: With all due respect to everything
you've been through, I don't think you're cutting those kids enough slack or
giving them enough credit. I mean, after the letters that Babe wrote didn't
work, they risked everything, everything to make things right. I mean, can you
imagine the courage it took to tell Bianca the truth to her face? If they hadn't
taken that risk, there's a good chance that J.R. would still have Miranda right
now.

Erica: Tad, it is just too little, way too
late. Babe nearly destroyed my daughter when she kept her baby from her. That's
unforgivable. No, please don't ask me for leniency. If I have my way, not Jamie,
but Babe, her mother, and David will spend a life paying for the suffering
they've caused.

Zach: Erica. If you need any help, I'm your
man.

Tad: Slater, why are you lurking around?

Erica: No, Tad, please. Let me.

Tad: By all means.

Erica: All right, let me be perfectly clear
--

Zach: Ahem.

Erica: I don't need or want your help.
Leave my family alone.

Zach: Well, it's my family, too. Miranda is
my brother's child.

Erica: Oh, don't you dare. Miranda is
Bianca's child, and you cut your ties to the Cambias family years ago.

Zach: Be that as it may, she's still my
niece. And Hayward and the Carey women will pay for what they've done. Now,
you've made a mistake. You should have come to me instead of calling the police.
I have associates that will find Babe in no time at all.

Erica: I'm not very impressed by your seedy
underworld connections.

Zach: Still, they will find her, bring her
back here, and she and her parents will be dealt with quickly.

Erica: No. I want their suffering to be
drawn out, excruciatingly, the way Bianca's was.

Zach: I don't have a problem with that.
I'll go after them, on my own if I have to or with you. It's your call, Erica
Kane.

Bianca: Must be nice to sleep like that,
without a care.

Kendall: Hmm.

Ethan: Come on. I thought we were here to
count down the New Year, ladies, not play identity crisis. Listen, we've got
people coming and the champagne's not even uncorked. Ok?

Bianca: You know what? New plan.

Ethan: What?

Bianca: You're leaving.

Kendall: Wait, what? No -- why?

Bianca: Well, because I think you guys
should find someplace quiet and romantic and celebrate the New Year together
with this.

Ethan: No, I'm -- ladies, I'm not going to
come between the three of you on New Year's Eve.

Bianca: It's not possible. And besides,
Kendall has been with me ever since we got back from Florida nonstop. I think she deserves a break,
don't you?

Kendall: Are you sure? Binks, are you sure?

Bianca: Please, I insist. Look, go find
someplace perfect before the clock strikes midnight. I'm going to have plenty of company here.

Greenlee: No. She won't get lucky, either,
if she's wearing this rag. Disco retro alert. Huh. Not so bad.

[Greenlee removes her jacket to try on
something of Kendall's]

Ryan: I'm not having any luck with --
Greenlee?

[When the sight of his wife in a strapless
top turns Ryan on, the two engage in some heavy kissing]

Ryan: You know what? This isn't very
productive.

Greenlee: You want productive? Take me
home, and I'll give you that Christmas present I promised you.

Ryan: You know what? You know what -- no. I
would love to make a baby with you, all right? I want to make -- I want to make
a lot of babies with you, but not until I know you're safe. All right? I love
you, and I know this isn't your idea of a fun Auld Lang Syne, but I promise you
an incredible year next year and the year after that and many more after that.
The only thing that matters right now is my first resolution for our first year
together, and that is to make sure that you don't get hurt, ok?

Greenlee: Then get it in gear. You got a
computer to hack, and I got to tear this place apart.

Ryan: Stop distracting me.

Greenlee: Try "Miranda."

Ryan: Genius! I'm in!

Jack: Lily? It's Dad. Open the door,
please?

Anita: You want me to track down a key?

Aidan: No, it's all right. I got it.

Jack: Honey, honey, I just want to talk to
you, ok? Please open the door. Did you get it?

Aidan: May I?

Jack: Sure.

Aidan: Lily? Lily, it's me. I've just come
inside here just to talk to you about what you said earlier. And it's very
important that you hear me, ok? I'm really, really flattered that you want me to
be your boyfriend, but I didn't answer you earlier because I wasn't sure what
you meant. Any chance that you could tell me what it is that you want from your
boyfriend?

Lily: I just want someone that I can talk
to and that can talk to me and that likes me just because I'm me. But I don't
want any touching or sex or anything like that.

Aidan: Well, that's good, because that
won't be in my plans, either.

Lily: But we could have fun, like we could
play math games and we could do jigsaw puzzles.

Aidan: Yeah, we could do that. We could
play a math game right now. Do you want to give me a puzzle?

Lily: What's the square root of 289? It's
so simple.

Aidan: Um -- 17?

Lily: You did it.

Aidan: I'm a little bit rusty without my
calculator.

Lily: So, will you be my boyfriend?

Aidan: I already am.

Jack: Hi.

Lily: So, will you come visit me tomorrow?

Aidan: You bet.

Lily: Right, and thank you for being my
boyfriend.

Aidan: It's my honor, Lily. I wish you a
Happy New Year.

Lily: Thank you.

Jack: Well, Bianca's waiting for us, so,
Reggie, if you don't mind, lead the troops that way.

Reggie: Yeah. Thanks, man.

Jack: Well, nicely done.

Aidan: She's a great girl.

Livia: And you're a prince.

Jack: And you've -- you got your hands full
now. You better bone up on your math skills.

Aidan: I know.

Jack: Listen, Anita told me to tell you to
stay right where you are. She'll be back with some kind of a New Year's
surprise.

Aidan: Well, she's only got 15 minutes till
midnight.

Jack: Well, judging by her enthusiasm,
she'll make it.

Livia: But I might not and Tom is going to
kill me. Tell Bianca I'll see her tomorrow. Happy New Year!

Jack: I will and give Tom my love. Happy
New Year. Bye. And, you -- thanks.

Aidan: You're welcome.

Jack: Happy New Year.

Aidan: You, too. Cheers, Jack.

Erica: I'll work with you for one common
goal.

Zach: I'm looking for results same as you.
Tell me about the Chandler boys. Did they know about the babies being switched?

Erica: For once, something miserable
happened and Adam wasn't behind it. As a matter of fact, we would never have
gotten Miranda back so easily if it hadn't been for Adam's help. He actually
brought the baby to us for the DNA test and took the heat from J.R., too.

Zach: What about J.R.?

Erica: J.R. didn't even know about it until
Babe left town and then he was in complete denial.

Zach: Are you sure?

Erica: Yes, I'm sure. I saw him. J.R. loved
his Bess with his whole heart, and he felt so betrayed that he convinced himself
that Babe lied just to punish him. Now -- look, he's completely devastated.

Zach: Chief. I'm sorry. I have an apology
to make. Do you remember that surveillance disc that we were looking for the
night that Adam Chandler went missing?

Derek: The disc that didn't exist?

Zach: Yeah, a funny story about that -- we
just found it. One of my security people had misfiled it somewhere.

Derek: No kidding?

Zach: Yeah. It's awful. Turns out that Adam
was right -- Hayward knocked him out and nailed him into a box and shipped him
off to God knows where.

Erica: Well, poor David. He just can't seem
to keep out of trouble.

David: Stop pacing. Just be glad that the
other cells are overcrowded and you're not bunking with some lunatic.

Krystal: I'll be glad when Tad convinces
Erica not to go after those kids.

David: Let's forget Erica for a minute,
shall we? We need to get our statements straight.

Krystal: I'm going for the truth this time.

David: No, you're not. You're going to take
back everything that you've confessed to thus far and you're going to swear that
you and Babe knew nothing about the baby switch until the night before Babe left
town.

Krystal: That's just going to make things
worse!

David: Just hear me out. Babe got a letter
from Paul Cramer that night. He confessed to everything. In your shock and your
grief, you and Babe destroyed his confession and then Babe sat down and started
writing letters to everybody the second that she realized that the babies had
been switched.

Krystal: Who's going to buy that?

David: Look, just trust me, ok? I've been
in scrapes like this before. This is the out that we need, Krystal -- for you,
for me, and for Babe. Now, if you just do as I say, you're not guilty of
anything, and Babe is in the clear, too.

Krystal: I can handle the truth, David, and
I am ready to get whatever's coming my way. I am not going to start lying all
over again.

David: You don't have a choice.

Tad: He's right.

Jack: Hmm.

Bianca: Oh, oh, I forgot to tell you.

Jack: What's that?

Bianca: Mom called. She said she's on her
way.

Jack: Oh, good, good.

Lily: Bianca, I have a boyfriend.

Bianca: You do? Whoa! Wow, well, isn't that
exciting news.

Jack: You have no idea.

Danielle: He's a hottie, too.

Lily: My boyfriend and I are going to be as
happy as Reggie and Dani.

Reggie: Well, then you'd better live up to
the hype.

Jack: Well, I have all the happiness I need
right here -- you fully recovered and raring to go, Miranda back in the fold. I
can't think of a better start for a new year.

Bianca: Hmm. Me, neither.

[Jack chuckles]

Bianca: Oh, Uncle Jack, I am just -- I'm so
happy. I'm just so happy.

Ryan: Uh-oh.

[Ryan sees something on Kendall's computer screen that alarms him]

Greenlee: Oh, no. Ryan!

Ryan: What? What'd you find?

Aidan: All right, two --

Anita: I am known for my great timing.

Aidan: Talk about cutting it close, why
don't you. Come on, let's go.

Anita: Hold on. There's something I have to
lose.

[Anita removes her white coat, revealing a
slinky dress]

Aidan: Wow. Happy hot damn New Year.

Krystal: You did not just tell me to lie.

Tad: Yes, I did. I'm sorry, but it's
necessary. Krystal, you and David have to tell the cops something that'll keep
them from going after the kids. It's no joke. If Jamie and Babe are caught, they
will do time for kidnapping, and J.R. will end up with baby James, and I can't
allow that. So as much as it kills me, you've got to do what he says. He may be
the village idiot, but he's got a Ph.D. Guard?

[Jail cell opens and closes]

David: Guess what time it is.

Krystal: Time for me to change my wicked
ways.

David: Next year is going to be much
better. I swear it. Hey. Happy New Year.

Erica: Nice work, the way you hung David
out to dry. You might be useful after all.

Zach: Yeah? This may be the beginning of a
beautiful friendship. Who knows? A good way to start the new year.

Erica: Well, it has to be better than this
past year. And when I think of all the wasted time, all the time that Bianca
lost with her baby, time she can never get back -- no, if I've learned one
thing, it's to seize the moment. It's to stand up and fight for what your heart
knows or lose even more.